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Akron at 200 : a bicentennial history / David Lieberth and Jon Miller, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ohio history and culture
- Series on Ohio History and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Akron (Ohio)--History.
- Akron (Ohio).
- Akron (Ohio)--Social life and customs.
- Akron (Ohio)--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 427 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Akron at two hundred
- Place of Publication:
- Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2025.
- Contents:
- Introduction / David Lieberth and Jon Miller
- The indigenous history of Akron / Eric Olson
- C.W. Howard and the temperance movement in early Akron / Jon Miller
- Our own John Brown / Donald R. Hicks
- Truth in between: the social and political environment of the 1851 Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio / Philathia Bolton
- An international city / Charlotte Gintert
- The Christian churches of Akron: from the Gore to the Globe / Jane Gramlich
- Akron's servants, 1900 to 1940 / Christi Blythin
- Akron: home of serial (and cereal) entrepreneurs / Christopher C. Esker
- Akron, home of the world of make-believe / Sharon Moreland Myers
- Wendell Willkie: Akron's favorite (adopted) son / Clair Dickinson
- The Wingfoots and Nonskids: kings of Akron baseball / Jeffrey Smith
- The brightest spot in the underworld: Akron's Furnace Street Mission / Bill Hauser
- The evangelists: from the Tenderloin to television / Jody Miller Konstand
- Tees and greens in the Rubber City / Jane Gramlich
- Some of Akron's Olympic gold medalists and hall of famers / Tim Carroll
- Fritz Pollard / Steve Love
- Akron in broadcasting / Mark J. Price
- The rise and fall of Howard Street as a Black business district / Rose Vance-Grom
- Julia Perry's musical legacy shines a light on Akron / Karla Tipton
- The failure of the Akron Innerbelt / Seyma Bayram
- 1968: a year of drama, a year of change / David Lieberth
- Black intracity migration to Maple Valley and the Copley Corridor in the 1960s / Shaneen Harris
- The great transition: remembering the Akron Renaissance / Stephen H. Paschen
- The Akron sound / David Giffels
- Akron's queer history / Fran Wilson
- "You'll be hearing from us, too": citizen volunteers and environmentalism in Akron / Megan Shaeffer
- Neighborhood development in the twenty-first century / Melanie Mohler.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version Akron at 200
- ISBN:
- 9781629223117 (electronic bk.)
- 1629223115 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40033182579
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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